Literature and Film of the Cuban Revolution

Cuba’s revolution of 1959 gained extraordinary visibility internationally, motivating images of bearded rebels, jubilant crowds and middle-class flight. Yet even as the Cuban Revolution became an object of representation abroad, it guided the domestic production of new forms of literature and cinema. Over the course of the semester, we will trace the relationship between fiction and film, and between art and the revolutionary project, from 1959 to the present day.